Listening/Purchasing Plan

[mn dave]

Do you guys have a method to your madness?

Heh.

Sometimes I feel I need a plan for purchasing recordings, otherwise it seems as though I'm attempting to purchase every CD in the universe--just like Harry. And, for me, that's not a good feeling. I'd like to think there will be a time when I can stop and be happy with what I've accumulated over the years. Do you worry about this at all? Do you restrict yourself in some way from buying everything that catches your eye/ear?

[mn dave]

I don't buy much, I spend more time listening.

Yeah, that's the best way, I think. What prompts you to buy a new recording?

[Bulldog]

Do you restrict yourself in some way from buying everything that catches your eye/ear?

Due to financial limitations, I only put "must have" recordings on my wish list. 

[mn dave]

Due to financial limitations, I only put "must have" recordings on my wish list. 

What makes them "must have?" A piece you've not heard before?

[Sergeant Rock]

Do you guys have a method to your madness?

Call me Dr. Chaos.

I'd like to think there will be a time when I can stop and be happy with what I've accumulated over the years.

  Dream on.

Sarge

[Bulldog]

What makes them "must have?" A piece you've not heard before?

Nothing really to do with whether I've heard a piece before.

The following tend to be "must-have":

Any recording of Bach organ and keyboard music (especially Goldbergs and WTC)
Wellesz
Miaskovsky
Scriabin solo piano
Schumann solo piano
Dvorak chamber music
Handel keyboard suites
Shostakovich chamber and solo piano
Mahler/Bruckner symphonies
Bax
Chopin preludes
Gouvy
Janacek string quartets
Medtner
Debussy/Ravel string quartets
Faure chamber
Martinu symphonies
Weinberg
Zemlinsky
Reger chamber
Taneyev
Aho

There's likely a few more that I can't recall at the moment.  Also, the list changes some over time;  Aho was added a few months ago based on loving what I heard on the Naxos Music Library.

[Todd]

Do you guys have a method to your madness?

Nope, that would require too much thinking.

[mn dave]

I'm tempted to restrict myself to chamber pieces (four instruments or less) I don't own yet. One decent recording each. Still, that's a ton of recordings--I think. Even if I stick to the Baroque through Romatic eras.

[Bulldog]

I'm tempted to restrict myself to chamber pieces (four instruments or less) I don't own yet. One decent recording each. Still, that's a ton of recordings--I think. Even if I stick to the Baroque through Romatic eras.

Sounds like you have a long-range plan.  If you think of it as long-term, I have every confidence you will accomplish the mission (better than Bush).

[mn dave]

Sounds like you have a long-range plan.  If you think of it as long-term, I have every confidence you will accomplish the mission (better than Bush).

Thanks. I will do my best, sir!

[Bulldog]

This is my current wish list:

Bach WTC II - Sheppard/Romeo, Suzuki/BIS
Bruckner 6th - Norrington/Hanssler
Debussy - Sherman/Avie
Enescu - Violin and Piano/Hanssler/Vol. 2
Glazunov - Sym. 6/Warner Classics
Janacek - St. Qts./Alpha Productions
Karlowicz - Sym. Poems/Naxos/Vols. 1 and 2
Mahler 4 - Sanderling/BBC
Mahler 5 - Zinman/RCA and Jansons/RCO
Mahler - Das Lied/Thomas/SF
Schumann - V. Sonatas/ECM
Scriabin P. Sons. - Stoupel/Audite
Shostakovich 4 - Haitink/CSO
Shostakovich - Cello Concertos/Orfeo
Stanford - Syms./Naxos/Vols. 1-3
Weinberg - Syms. 4 and 6/Kondrashin/Melodiya

Some of the above are "iffy" such as the Debussy/Sherman and Karlowicz.

[mn dave]

This is my current wish list:

Bach WTC II - Sheppard/Romeo, Suzuki/BIS
Bruckner 6th - Norrington/Hanssler
Debussy - Sherman/Avie
Enescu - Violin and Piano/Hanssler/Vol. 2
Glazunov - Sym. 6/Warner Classics
Janacek - St. Qts./Alpha Productions
Karlowicz - Sym. Poems/Naxos/Vols. 1 and 2
Mahler 4 - Sanderling/BBC
Mahler 5 - Zinman/RCA and Jansons/RCO
Mahler - Das Lied/Thomas/SF
Schumann - V. Sonatas/ECM
Scriabin P. Sons. - Stoupel/Audite
Shostakovich 4 - Haitink/CSO
Shostakovich - Cello Concertos/Orfeo
Stanford - Syms./Naxos/Vols. 1-3
Weinberg - Syms. 4 and 6/Kondrashin/Melodiya

Some of the above are "iffy" such as the Debussy/Sherman and Karlowicz.

It's a nice, short one.

[Harry]

I simply buy all what I like, that's the way of the least resistance!

[The new erato]

I simply buy all what I like, that's the way of the least resistance!

Yeah; we go with the flow.

[71 dB]

This is my current wish list:

Bach WTC II - Sheppard/Romeo, Suzuki/BIS
Bruckner 6th - Norrington/Hanssler
Debussy - Sherman/Avie
Enescu - Violin and Piano/Hanssler/Vol. 2
Glazunov - Sym. 6/Warner Classics
Janacek - St. Qts./Alpha Productions
Karlowicz - Sym. Poems/Naxos/Vols. 1 and 2
Mahler 4 - Sanderling/BBC
Mahler 5 - Zinman/RCA and Jansons/RCO
Mahler - Das Lied/Thomas/SF
Schumann - V. Sonatas/ECM
Scriabin P. Sons. - Stoupel/Audite
Shostakovich 4 - Haitink/CSO
Shostakovich - Cello Concertos/Orfeo
Stanford - Syms./Naxos/Vols. 1-3
Weinberg - Syms. 4 and 6/Kondrashin/Melodiya

Some of the above are "iffy" such as the Debussy/Sherman and Karlowicz.

That's not "madness". My wishlist is about 10 times longer and that starts to be anxious. 

[mn dave]

My flow is a tidal wave.  

[Bulldog]

It's a nice, short one.

Always seems too long to me.

[mn dave]

Always seems too long to me.

Well, I suppose if you keep adding to it.

[ragman1970]

the differenve between plan and planing is that the first is theoretical!

[Todd]

Some of the above are "iffy" such as the Debussy/Sherman and Karlowicz.

My wish list just got longer - the idea of Russell Sherman playing Debussy is most interesting.  That's why I enjoy this forum - all those recordings that could've got away . . .